Week 14 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Playoff Prep - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/8

IUC had the touchdown last night, both nine targets. So I think both are viable. They're viable. And it was wild that it took them so long to get Debo involved last night. I mean, look at that. It's really garbage time. Yeah, it was 6 for 73. It was in the second half of the game. Let's get the man the ball. Yeah, both of those guys are going to be on the field the entire game. They're going to be.

We're getting ahead of ourselves, but I'm just, I'm thinking out loud here. Next year, man, when you have Iyuk in his second year, Debo, George Kittle back on the field. This is going to be an interesting offense. Jimmy Hansel. Yeah, maybe. Sorry, Carson wins. Oh, all right, let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Tuesdaynight Football.com this evening.

We also have a Thursday night game. So we just don't take breaks. Every day is football. Lamar Jackson activated. We'll play tonight. Curtis Samuel's been placed on the reserve COVID list as a close contact to the confirmed positive DJ Moore. We do not expect DJ Moore back out on the field then next week. And then we'll hopefully get Samuel back as a close contact. Yes. The timeline of it, he should be able to come back assuming he keeps testing negative.

Christian McCaffrey is supposed to return in week 14 against the Broncos. Jason, are you interested in his return? I am super interested in his return. While I debate whether Rahim Mostard against Washington or James Connor against Buffalo runs next to him, I will not be debating whether or not Christian McCaffrey is my lead guy. And just so that the Fookland at home can follow along, because I know many of you like to do that.

It appears Jason and Mike will be playing each other in the first round, not Jason and myself. All right. And so, you know, Mike is not feeling great about his team right now. No. No. To some injuries. They're crumbling. Every time you've said my team is crumbling, another player has gone down. Yeah. DJ Moore, Gibson. Yep. Miles. Yep.

Yeah, everything's fine. How are you feeling about Mike's team, Jason? I thought I was not playing Mike. So I thought I was playing Daniel. So I'm really excited to play Mike if that's the case. Oh, yeah. Now, we'll find out. We'll find out. We'll keep you up today. I might be wrong on that. This is bad news. John Gruden, not confident that Josh Jacobs will return for week 14. That stinks. Yeah, that does. He's a guy that helped get people to the playoffs and you won't have them available.

Yeah, there's quite a few of those right now. And then Saints head coach Sean Payton did not provide a time frame for Drew Brees. There was some optimism about him playing in week 14. Yeah, but I mean, at the same time, Sean Payton wouldn't say whether it's James Winston or, you know, he's keeping this close to the vest no matter what Adam Schaefter did report that he could return in week 14. So it's at least worth monitoring if you've got a quarterback problem.

you might consider, and this is the WaiverWire show when you're looking at your streaming matchup, Breeze could be out on waivers and you could take the shot that he would be active. I don't know why, but when you said if you have a quarterback problem, pay attention to waivers, for some reason I thought Matt Nagy might have perked up. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you got? Okay, any other news we need to talk about Brooks? Is there anything I missed? No, sir. All right. Excited about your Cowboys tonight? Nope.

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looking to the future. No, this is one week waiver wire wonder time. And the problem, too, is you kind of want to dance with the team you brought, right? You have a sense of... I would love to. Or you're in Mike's situation. And there are injuries all over the place, tough matchups, and we need to walk through each position and some options out there on the waiver wire. Why?

Because you could end up with the wide receiver one on the week. That's what last week's situation was. Mike started the week was Corey Davis. He was available in a lot of leagues. He's still available in like 45% of ESPN leagues right now. So he will be a highly competitive ad. But you have the opportunity to roll out some players that have Monster Weeks. Somehow, now Al Borland did not make our League of Record playoffs, and I want to stress that. Well, because his team is.

Hot garbage. Right, right. The hot garbage team, however, this is the credit I'm going to give you, Al, after the insult, of course. Of course. You went out and you put up the biggest week of any team in our league this past week. You had the three best wide receivers in football, which happened to be Devante Adams. Okay, all right, that makes sense. And then Corey Davis and Cole Beasley. And so, Tim Patrick didn't do too bad on the bench either.

Just couldn't fit in behind all these superstars. That's kind of crazy. So there's opportunity out there. So who are your favorite wide receivers you're looking at right now? Corey Davis is in the probably roster category. Yeah, he's probably on most rosters out there. Like you said, ESPN, he's more available than in Yahoo. I mean, looking at the top pickups, I would say, I don't have them ranked off the top of my head here, but Kiki QT, that was.

quite a breakout game for him. The first time we'd seen the Houston Texans without Will Fuller, Brandon Cooks and company, it turned into Kiki QT getting nine targets, eight for 141 yards, and he was being utilized down the field. It wasn't just the check it down to the slot wide receiver. It was, let's get Kiki wide open. Then you had T.Y. Hilton, the Houston Texans destroyer.

I mean, he is on more than half of waiver wires. Yeah, he is. The two names that stick out to me, and Kiki QT should absolutely be looked at because of targets, because of quarterback. But the matchup is tough against Chicago this week. So maybe that pushes you to two other guys that I prefer, which is T.Y. Hilton, after his phenomenal game where he showed he is still capable. I mean, I know it's not going to be against Houston. And T.Y. Houston is very good. And it's a second consecutive good game. Right.

against the Las Vegas Raiders, that's another plus matchup. And then you do get the advantage of T.Y. Houston again, the following week against Houston. The other player that I like is Alan Lazard. Let me see if I could talk you guys into why I think he is worth. I need a lot of guys. I'm in. Named some more. But the reality is Aaron Rogers is playing phenomenal football. You know, if he throws.

Four touchdowns this week against Detroit. Nobody's going to be surprised. Don't be like, why not five? Why not? Yeah, exactly. That will be the surprise. Why only four? And then you've got Carolina and Tennessee. So you've got three back-to-back good matchups, a phenomenal quarterback. And Alan Lazard has looked pretty good. He didn't have a good, great game this last week. You know, three for 50 is mediocre.

It didn't crush you with 50 yards, but it's certainly nothing special. But he played 69% of the snaps. He's been good. Mark as Valdez Scantling still can't catch the ball. So I just like putting my, if I'm taking a shot on a waiver wire pick up and play, I want touchdowns. And I don't see anybody out there with as high a touchdown probability to me as the one playing with Aaron Rogers. No, it makes sense. And you like the schedule moving forward. The Hilton thing is tough. Yeah.

Because everything you said is 100% right. I look at that and I look at Houston on the schedule and I say the history of T.Y. Hilton. Now I know I'm looking at T.Y. Hilton differently than if Zach Pascal had the week he had last week. And would I be chasing it into my fantasy playoffs? I'm not sure I would. That being said, it's Las Vegas. It's a really, really solid matchup.

And there is something to be said about trusting that over the likes of Kiki QT after one good game going against Chicago. So, you know, Michael Pittman, I mean, he's in the same conversation. He's out there too as T.Y. Hilton. Hilton was the one who had the big game, but Pittman still had five targets, five receptions for 46 yards. I mean, he's on the field. He was on the field more than T.Y. Hilton this past week. Also, Jonathan Abram might not play.

This week against the race. The Raiders safety who's phenomenal. He might not play. So T.Y. Hilton and Michael Pittman are absolutely in play. Yeah, I like the 11 targets. And I like that Rivers looked his way. Rivers is somebody I think is sneaky this week as well. So I like Hilton. I imagine if Corey, now you put Corey Davis ahead of him if he's available, right? Sure. And would you put Cole Beasley ahead with how on fire Beasley is? Or do you not because of the Pittsburgh matchup?

I would. John Brown is still going to be out because he was put on IR. Cole Beasley is, when John Brown is off the field, Cole Beasley is just, he's great. Yeah, if you're in a PPR league especially, Cole Beasley is, even in a tough matchup, he's just going to be peppered with enough targets. I think those are the biggest names. Now, you go deeper, you look at players like Tim Patrick, who just got brought up, who's been out. He's the wide receiver one on that team.